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Broken Hill & the Far West · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1952

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Comet Is Late Due to Floods

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 1

The Comet into Broken Hill tonight was running about two and a half hours behind schedule at…

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Storms Batter Japan, America

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 26 June 1952 · page 2

Tokio, June 24.—More than 60 people have been killed and many are missing following a typhoon which swept central and southern…

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Floods

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 26 June 1952 · page 1

Sydney, June 25. — The flooded Lachlan River at Euabalong was tonight 11½ inches above its previous record level and near its…

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Floods on Railway

Barrier Miner · Thursday 26 June 1952 · page 1

The Crystal Street Stationmaster (Mr. H. Bool) said today that about twothirds of the 25 miles of…

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Battle of Floods

Barrier Miner · Thursday 26 June 1952 · page 1

Sydney.—Levee banks around Darlington Point, in south-western N.S.W., and Euabalong, in the central-west, where floodwaters from the Murrumbidgee and Lachlan Rivers are continuing to…

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Flood Relief N.C.G.M. Seats Clothing

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 28 June 1952 · page 4

The N.C.G.M. is now conducting a clothes drive for flood victims in the Forbes district. All donations may be left at the…

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Sydney Rail Line Is Cut by Flood

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 July 1952 · page 2

Last night the remaining railway connection between Broken Hill and Sydney…

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No Trains Front Sydney. Floods Cut Hillston Line

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 4 July 1952 · page 1

Following the flooding of the southers railway line at Hillston on Wednesday, night there will be no more…

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Radio Vital in Floods

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 4 July 1952 · page 3

From the flooded areas of New South Wales come stories of the vital role the radio is playing in the saving of lives, stock and…

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Radio Vital in Floods

Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 July 1952 · page 5

Sydney—From the flooded areas of N.S.W. come stories of the vital role radio is playing in saving lives, stock and property. Car radios, portables, and battery receivers of every type have been pressed into service…

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Flood Victim Compensation

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 8 July 1952 · page 9

The BDAALP will request the Federal Government and the Victorian and N.S.W. State Governments…

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Floods Kill 50 Japanese; 100 Injured

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 July 1952 · page 1

Tokio, Friday.—The latest casualty list in the Japanese floods shows that more than 50 people were killed in western and central Japan, nearly 100 injured and a similar number are…

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Victorian Flood Forces Hundreds From Their Homes

Barrier Miner · Monday 14 July 1952 · page 2

Melbourne. — Three hundred people were rescued or driven from their homes when water up to 12 feet deep swept through low-lying areas in Dandenong, early today. Eighty people, brought out by two army ducks, and police, huddled…

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Flood Toll in Vic

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 2

Melbourne.— Waterlogged homes, isolated farms, stranded and dead stock, were seen today…

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1200 Homeless in Melbourne Flood

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 1

Melbourne.—Twelve hundred people were driven from their homes between Aspendale and Carrum last nigh and early today by swiftly rising floodwaters…

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Floods Block Hume Highway

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 16 July 1952 · page 2

Melbourne—Flood waters from the swollen Goulburn River have blocked the Hume Highway—the main road between Sydney and Melbourne, at Seymour, 62…

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Stop Press Flood Danger

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 16 July 1952 · page 12

Melbourne.— A warning of renewed flood dangers in victoria was given by the Weather Bureau today. Heavy rain has set in…

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Floods in Victoria

Barrier Miner · Monday 21 July 1952 · page 12

FLOODWATERS rushing down Patterson road, Moorabbin, are the result of Melbournes wettest July weekend for 61 years. Water was 8in. deep as it poured through the gateway of the home above. Ian Campbell and Jeff Sullivan showits force…

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Saving Murray Roads in Flood

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 22 July 1952 · page 10

Melbourne. — Preparations are being made in three States to keep the roads open as the lower reaches of…

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Aid For Flood Victims Reply To B.D.A.A.L.P. Recommendation

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 23 July 1952 · page 1

The Minister for Labor and Industry and Social Welfare (Mr. Finnan) wrote to Messrs. Wetherell and Wattison as follows on the…

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